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I'd suspect the more exercise you do the more that number moves up, you'd be breathing harder. I'd hesitate to try and put a 'hard limit' on anything like this.

by leshow 9y ago

IpV8 9y ago
Also take daylight savings into account, you could get an extra hour one day a year. Thats a lot more breaths.
- tawayway 9y ago
  Not sure about you but I keep breathing 24 hours a day.
  - y4mi 9y ago
    you're clearly not trying hard enough.
- mikeash 9y ago
  Supercharge your weight loss by running west.
  - makapuf 9y ago
    But optimize this by not running too close to c (or is it the contrary ? My restrained relativity courses are rusty)
    - kaybe 9y ago
      In your reference frame nothing will be different, so it really depends on whether you want to loose weight for yourself or for others.
      - ssfsa 9y ago
        Except he had to accelerate to speed and back, so only our reference frame matters.
  - MintPattern 9y ago
    Supercharge the whole planet's weight loss by spinning counterclockwise... Robbing the planet of it's angular momentum and extending night and day.
adekok 9y ago
It's pretty difficult to double that number. Can you really double your metabolism without ill effect? Or without massively changing your lifestyle? The normal expectation is maybe 10-25% change. Any more than than would require things likes 8 hours of exercise per day.
- Jenya_ 9y ago
  Losing eight pounds during 3-4 hours run (marathon event) is not unheard of: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3319287 http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3319287
  - smeyer 9y ago
    Like the previous commenter mentioned, that's mostly water. I've seen various numbers between 100 and 150 calories burned per mile for runners, which at the high end is just a bit over one pound's worth of calories for a marathon.
    - garmaine 9y ago
      I’ve read about people who do things like swim the channel, and bulk up (10’s of lbs) before doing so. Given that they lose this weight in the process, how does that happen?
      - smeyer 9y ago
        I think that's mostly independent. A swimmer bulking up for a channel swim is probably putting on a mix of water, fat, and muscle in the slow lead up to the swim (and maybe extra water in the days before) and then losing water during the swim. Here's [0] a discussion of swimmers strategizing about weight gain, and you can see that it's largely about issues like insulation from cold, buoyancy, and strength, and not because they're worried about losing the weight during the swim itself. [0] http://marathonswimmers.org/forum/discussion/90/when-to-gain-weight-for-a-channel-swim http://marathonswimmers.org/forum/discussion/90/when-to-gain...
- 9y ago

I'd suspect the more exercise you do the more that number moves up, you'd be breathing harder. I'd hesitate to try and put a 'hard limit' on anything like this.

by leshow 9y ago

I'd suspect the more exercise you do the more that number moves up, you'd be breathing harder. I'd hesitate to try and put a 'hard limit' on anything like this.

IpV8 9y ago

Also take daylight savings into account, you could get an extra hour one day a year. Thats a lot more breaths.

tawayway 9y ago
Not sure about you but I keep breathing 24 hours a day.
- y4mi 9y ago
  you're clearly not trying hard enough.
mikeash 9y ago
Supercharge your weight loss by running west.
- makapuf 9y ago
  But optimize this by not running too close to c (or is it the contrary ? My restrained relativity courses are rusty)
  - kaybe 9y ago
    In your reference frame nothing will be different, so it really depends on whether you want to loose weight for yourself or for others.
    - ssfsa 9y ago
      Except he had to accelerate to speed and back, so only our reference frame matters.
- MintPattern 9y ago
  Supercharge the whole planet's weight loss by spinning counterclockwise... Robbing the planet of it's angular momentum and extending night and day.

adekok 9y ago

It's pretty difficult to double that number. Can you really double your metabolism without ill effect? Or without massively changing your lifestyle? The normal expectation is maybe 10-25% change. Any more than than would require things likes 8 hours of exercise per day.

Jenya_ 9y ago
Losing eight pounds during 3-4 hours run (marathon event) is not unheard of: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3319287 http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3319287
- smeyer 9y ago
  Like the previous commenter mentioned, that's mostly water. I've seen various numbers between 100 and 150 calories burned per mile for runners, which at the high end is just a bit over one pound's worth of calories for a marathon.
  - garmaine 9y ago
    I’ve read about people who do things like swim the channel, and bulk up (10’s of lbs) before doing so. Given that they lose this weight in the process, how does that happen?
    - smeyer 9y ago
      I think that's mostly independent. A swimmer bulking up for a channel swim is probably putting on a mix of water, fat, and muscle in the slow lead up to the swim (and maybe extra water in the days before) and then losing water during the swim. Here's [0] a discussion of swimmers strategizing about weight gain, and you can see that it's largely about issues like insulation from cold, buoyancy, and strength, and not because they're worried about losing the weight during the swim itself. [0] http://marathonswimmers.org/forum/discussion/90/when-to-gain-weight-for-a-channel-swim http://marathonswimmers.org/forum/discussion/90/when-to-gain...
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